By Dr. Ayla Wilson, Naturopathic Physician at Bloom Family Wellness Centre. Women who give birth after 40 face the often challenging reality of raising young children while transitioning through menopause. Moms in their 40’s and 50’s are turning to bio-identical hormones for a safe and effective means of coping with these changes. Am I […]

By Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD, author of From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice. When people warned me that I might not have enough energy to keep up with a toddler in my 40’s I shrugged them off. As it turned out, I’ve kept up with my son physically. What I didn’t anticipate was […]

By Dr. Nancy Irwin, Psychotherapist and FlowerPowerMom.com Expert. While younger mothers are entering peri-menopause around the time their children are in college, older moms can expect to enter this phase of life change when their kids are tweens or teens. Some would consider a menopausal woman and a teenager a lethal combination, but it is […]

By Angel LaLiberte, Founder of FlowerPowerMom.com. In the fall of 2012, I will be fifty-two, my son ten, and my daughter seven years old. Lately, I’ve been waking up at the crack of dawn to roll over to my husband and say: “Whose idea was this, anyway?” Yesterday, as if to salt the wound, he […]

Yesterday, AARP broadcast a long awaited program on “Inside E-Street” for PBS television, titled “Babies @50”. Lynn Laszewski—from our “A Child After 40” online community—who had her son at 51, kicks off the program with her story. After Laszewski, I was interviewed on controversial social issues, including maternal ageism, and the rising need for FPM’s […]

Coping with the hormonal roller coaster of perimenopause, while raising young children, is a subject almost too hot to handle. According to a new book—Eat To Defeat Menopause—The Essential Nutrition Guide for a Healthy Midlife, by Karen Gilbin and Mache Seibel, MD—the onset of “the change” can feel like “a raging case of PMS.” I […]

Social trends and advances in reproductive science have led women to have “false optimism” about getting pregnant later in life, according to a new set of guidelines published last month by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC). (See link below.) In a review of published literature on women’s age and ability to […]

(http://www NULL.achildafter40 NULL.com/parenting-technology-kids/star-trek-2/)These days, having watched the original Star Trek series air on TV (Star Date: 1966—1969) carries about as much weight as witnessing man’s first step on the moon. I was there for both. From 5-to-8 years old, the whole notion of humanity’s technological brilliance was imprinted on my brain like that of a […]

(http://www NULL.achildafter40 NULL.com/christmas-older-mother/st-nick/)Last week, while walking through the local shopping centre—bustling with about as much Christmas activity as the OK Corral at high noon—I couldn’t help but ask “Who died?” Despite refusing to allow the economic mess we’re in to leave me crying in my mug of mulled wine on Christmas Eve, I felt that […]

(http://www NULL.achildafter40 NULL.com/fpms-greatest-hits-motherhood-40/rca_45/)Constant speculation about the role egg donation might have played in Kelly Preston’s pregnancy gives new life to the old chestnut: Do real moms use donor eggs? It’s also given birth to an idea. I’ll be re-launching a special selection of Flower Power Mom’s blog article playlist from earlier this year, dealing with […]